Come to @adrian_dimi ‘s adv/pro open ballet class with me 🩰
This is my 2nd class back with him since December. My right foot is better but not fully better (I injured the FHL tendon so can’t do demi pointe properly, but it’s definitely getting better slowly).
My 1st class back with Adrian a few weeks ago, I thought my foot was fully better and did the whole class full out and had the best class and was really ON! 😂 and then the next day my injury had gone back to square one. So taking it slowly now!
For my beginners, here are the exercise references:
1. Ronde de jambe (one side I’m doing en dehors set, other side I’m doing en dedans)
2. Some of port de bras end of RDJ
3. Fondu
4. Adage
5. Grand battement
6. A bit of plié
You can see I also don’t know what the exercise is sometimes 😅
Hello and welcome to Kwan Studio! My name is Zara, I started this lil business right in the middle of the pandemic in 2021.
I trained full-time at the Australian Ballet School under the guidance of Irina Konstantinova, Lisa Pavane, Tang Xiuyun and Wang Jiahong. During my 4 years at ABS, I had the privilege to perform in Swan Lake Act II, Leigh Rowles' Nutcracker, Coppélia and in Morning Melodies. I also had the opportunity to extra with the Australian Ballet.
However, instead of completing my studies at ABS, I decided to move into law. I hold a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (Chinese, French) from La Trobe University. Over a 5-year period, I worked as a commercial litigation and intellectual property lawyer at both global and boutique law firms (K&L Gates and Aptum), and also served as associate to the honourable Associate Justice Efthim at the Supreme Court of Victoria.
In 2021, I came full circle and returned to my first love, ballet. As well as running my adult ballet classes, I have taught ballet to children at the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet and SCIMM Dance. I have completed my teacher training under the Ballet Conservatoire syllabus (Russian Vaganova) and am also a qualified PBT teacher. I have attended teacher training seminars with Royal Ballet School and ABS.
I am passionate about teaching ballet to adults, and bring well-rounded and varied life experience to my teaching! After many years away from ballet, I have very muchly rekindled my love for ballet, and train semi-regularly myself with Adrian Dimitrievitch and Sakura Shimizu, just for enjoyment.
In 2025, 16 years after ‘quitting’ ballet, I performed in SWIM’s music video ‘Dear Friend.’ And in 2026, I was a choreographer for the Western Ballet Project’s adult ballet company production of Cleopatra.
I find ballet meditative and believe everybody should be able to participate in ballet, whether starting as an absolute beginner or picking it back up after many years away!
🎬 1. Level 6 at ABS (2008)
2. My little performance from 2025 (rehearsal).
3. Dancing in SWIM’s music video ‘Dear Friend’ (2025).
4. My little performance from 2023.
Last night I went to the opera, and I was thinking, when you go to the ballet, it’s cool how you could then go join an adult ballet class as a beginner. And was thinking I wonder if there are adult opera classes for beginners 🤔 (I don’t want to join, I was just thinking it as I watched haha).
Hello, ahead of enrolments opening for everyone tomorrow, just letting you know that I won’t be doing updates on here like ‘1 spot left’ ‘2 spots left’ etc as it makes me stressed haha. If a class is fully booked, it will say Sold Out on my website. Xx
Save this vid for reference! My friend from ABS days @toniaroselooker that foot articulation 🤌🏽 this is not just for pointe work, even if you’re not on pointe, we still want to be able to work thru every part of your foot when doing tendus, for example.
